A rash of home mortgage defaults helped spark last year's financial meltdown.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

But it's those kinds of questions that, there's a little bit of spark, there's a little bit of a powerful force and there's just a lot of hard work to get from here to there.

但是问题是，那时候已经产生了一些火花，一些外在动力,只不过达成目标还需要大量的艰苦工作。

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It all sort of depends on how you hit it off with somebody, whether there's a spark.

这要看你是不是跟那个人合得来，能不能擦出火花。

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His trip comes at a critical time with the results of the country's presidential election still uncertain and worries a disputed outcome, due to allegations of widespread ballot box stuffing, could spark further civil violence.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

I don't know if you know how a spark plug works, but for the electrical current to fly into operation in a spark plug, the two points of contact have to be gapped.

我不知道你们是否知道,火花塞是怎样工作的，在电流通入火花塞中使它运转之前，两个接触点之间需要有空隙。

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Much like the opportunities in the word "plastic," I think it's useful to suggest that this sense of gapping a spark plug may have some relevance to our understanding of what goes on in this reading process.

就像说到“塑料“时的几种可能性“,值得一说的是，这种火花塞间隙的概念,可能与我们的阅读有关,它让我们了解到阅读过程到底是怎样的。

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Iser's understanding of gapping the spark plug is a much more bold affirmative of the imaginative powers of the reader, a much more bold process than the hesitant conservative process suggested by Gadamer.

伊瑟尔火花塞间隙的见解,更加肯定读者的能力，比葛达玛倡导的保守程序,更加大胆。

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